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Yes, I know the kiss was random. But it was supposed to be odd and out of place. And just want to slam their faces together.
I don't own Danny Phantom. I mean, come on, I'm fifteen.
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On with the story!
Chapter two: The Usual Wailing and wondering
"WHAT?!" A feminine screech reverberated throughout the Casper High corridors, making every teenager plunge their fingers into their ears in order to muffle the noise.
They all sent the source of the irritating noise a look of annoyance before carrying on with their usual business, not even thinking for a second that something interesting was stirring between Danny Fenton, Sam Manson and Tucker Foley aka the Losers. The certain squawk had come from Sam, who was a midnight haired goth girl who detested the colour pink and opted for vegetables over meat. With a look of confusion she threw up her arms in frustration and gave an exasperated sigh.
"Keep it down Sam! You don't want the entire school to hear! Though, I bet they already did." Tucker slapped his ear in order to get the ringing to fade. This boy was an african-american techno geek with an obsession with his PDA and an undeniable love for meat produce. His ret hat, yellow shirt and geek aura often made him a target for bullies, but not as much as his best friend. Sam sent him a warning glare and crossed her arms moodily. "You were saying Danny?" Tuck continued and looked back down to his electronic device intently.
"Well..." Danny, the ebony haired boy wearing a white and red t-shirt and jeans rubbed the back of his neck in a familiar nervous gesture. Danny was... Well, everyone thought he was normal. He wasn't anything extra-ordinary or special. Apart from his parents being Ghost Hunters and his awful grades, nothing shone out about this boy. Only the slight chill down your spine when you spoke to him and the secrecy of where he went when he left 'for the toilet' rose suspicion. But no one cared because Paulinas latest love interest was the hot gossip. Even though Danny wasn't really a geek or a nerd, he was still bullied more than any other kid in the school by Dash Baxter nonetheless. Perhaps this is what made it so odd for him to tell the events of the previous night, "I'm kinda meeting Dash on Friday." He gave a nervous half-smile and laughed slightly to try and ease the tension. "As Phantom." He concluded.
"Do you know how stupid that is Danny? What if he hurts you? What if he finds out?" Sam whispered harshly but fear for Dannys safety was evident in her violet eyes. Danny frowned ever so slightly at her reaction and crossed his arms over his chest with a pout.
"Maybe he won't. Maybe he will. But that's my choice Sam." Danny grumbled as he thought of Dash last night and the secret experiences they had shared; the hug, the kiss, the touch. It all seemed to dream-like. Or nightmarish. Danny was unsure on which. But he reassured himself that Dash was pretty dazed and in shock from being strangled so didn't know what he was doing. Danny sighed. That thought didn't make him feel any happier or satisfied.
"Just make sure you don't get in a mess dude." Tucker looked up from his PDA from under his thick rimmed glasses. "We don't like it when you get hurt bad." He gave a pained look and rested his hand on Dannys thin shoulder. Danny gave a hard smile and shrugged the hand off of him.
"Thanks, but I'm okay. I think it's going to be fine. It'll be great to see how Dash behaves with me without knowing I'm Fenton as well as Phantom." He gave a large grin which caused Sam to raise an eyebrow questioningly. A small smirk tugged at the corner of her lips before fading out of existence.
"Whatever you say Danny." She appeared to have given in and gave an un-Sam-like smile.
Danny gave her a look of suspicion before shaking his head and slamming his locker open before it was shut immediately again, narrowly missing Dannys fingers. He looked up to see the culprit who was none other than Dash. Danny's face brightened a second before fading to its usual deathly pale colour when Dash said, "Wailing time Fenturd!" In a booming loud voice and grabbed the white material of Dannys shirt.
Danny peered up at the looming bully, afraid of how he would react to Dash's presence. He was right to be wary. As soon as he looked up into Dash's hate-filled ocean eyes, Danny felt his heart thrum in his chest wildly. He glared at himself internally to stop but he couldn't. What the heck was going on here?! "Okay." Danny said absent-mindedly and just stared at Dash blankly.
Baxter blinked in confusion. "Okay?" He asked simply at first, "OKAY?" He raised his voice and growled, before grabbing Danny by his collar and hissing in his face very closely. "Listen to me punk. When I'm about to wail on you, you don't just say 'okay', OKAY?" He growled and Danny nodded his head robotically.
"Dash, leave him alone." Sam sighed impatiently and took hold Dannys hanging arm. Dash glared at the Goth girl with such an expression, that Danny wasn't sure how to feel. On the one hand, Dash was threatening Sam. On the other, that face made his stomach have fierce butterflies.
"Why should I listen to you Freak?!" He hissed and slammed Danny into his locker, shutting the thin metal door behind him and storming off down the corridor mumbling to himself incoherently. Tucker sighed and looked up and down the length of the corridor in a way that made it seem like routine.
"Coast's clear Danny." He exasperated and didn't look up from his PDA as Danny fell through the locker door with ease.
"Having second thoughts Danny?" Sam asked with a strict raised eyebrow and supported Dannys hands as he pulled himself off the ground.
"No." Danny said with certainty and brushed himself down. "Dash isn't all bad Sam." He said monotonously and continued with upset and confusion in his eyes.
"Not all that bad? He pummels you into your locker everyday, three times a day all through the school year!" Sam threw up her arms in over exaggerated distress.
"Yet he was nice to Phantom after he saved him." Danny retorted and huffed a large out-gust of air with a fed up attitude. "Look, I've got to give him a chance. We can't just believe that the bully is all he is. He's something else. I just know it." He said assertively and shrugged his back-pack onto his shoulder before dragging his tired feet along the empty corridors of Casper High.
Danny looked as he always did. The scruffy hair with the hollow eyes and translucent skin were not what a teenager should be having to wear everyday. But Danny did. Having a 'side-job' as Danny Phantom took sleep, social time and energy from Danny. But because of recent events, this had been getting worse. The night Dash was saved by him lingered in his mind sternly. It was driving him insane. The countless unanswered questions whirring about in his mind constantly.
The only thing Danny was sure of was that if Spectra got her hands on him anytime soon, she'd have a full course meal on her plate. Of course Danny didn't tell Sam and Tucker the full extent of what happened that night. Especially not the 'intimate' details. For one thing, Tucker would laugh at him and Sam would go psycho; secondly, they'd blab non-stop questions at him and thirdly, he found himself feeling sick when he thought about telling them that he tangled tongues with Dash Baxter. The same kind of sick that came with trying to tell your parents that you're half ghost. Of course Danny'd know all about that and that's why he hadn't told them. He got hurt enough by ghosts.
Kwan had noticed that Dash'd been acting a bit strange from the start of the school day. His best friend had been more reserved than usual and whenever Paulina or Star asked what was wrong he sent a mumbled 'nothing', sighed and then slumped into his desk. Kwan knew he'd have to intervene. It wasn't normal for Dash to be acting so... Longing for something. He was usually a bustling ball of energy that even Kwan found hard to contain.
When lunch came, he noticed Dash sitting under a tree, far away from everyone else with his knees brought up to his chest and his brow furrowed in concentration. This was definitely not a good look for him. Kwan left the A-lister table after five minutes of thinking about what he should do and whether he should act or not and headed over to the tree where Dash sat looking over Amity Park with a thoughtful expression. The Asian Jock muttered to himself quietly before taking in a big breath and stepping to the side of Dash shakily.
"Dash. What's on your mind?" Kwan asked, making his best friend jump and hold his shoulders uncomfortably.
"Jeez Kwan! Don't scare me like that! It ain't funny pretending to be a ghost. Especially in Amity." He appeared to flinch at what he said and crossed his arms before looking at the floor. Kwans eyebrows pulled up into a pitiful expression and he slumped down next to the blond.
"You can pass it off to Paulina and Star Dash, but you're my best friend dude. It's really obvious; I know something's up and I'm here to talk about it with you. No escape." Kwan gave a questioning look and tried to force Dash into making eye contact with him, which was rendered impossible by Dash hiding his face in his knees like a child. He sighed and nudged Dash with his elbow, "I promise I won't tell anyone." He did the best puppy dog face he could muster until Dash sneaked a peek of his best friends pout.
"Just don't tell anybody or I'll pull your underwear over your head. With you in them." Dash gave him a hard glare and then averted his eyes. "Last night Phantom savedq me and... Imayhaveaccidentlykissedhimandnowimmeetinghimonfri day." He babbled incessantly and blushed while tapping his foot nervously. Kwan blinked twice and showed no reaction or sign of understanding.
"Okay... Slow it down. I can't hear what you're saying when you blurt out words at the speed of light." He shifted on the grass and smiled slightly in a comforting way.
Dash sighed, "I may have accidentally kissed Phantom and now I'm meeting him on Friday." Kwan looked as though Tucker had dressed up as a chicken and had started shaking his behind in his face. He sat there wide-eyed with his mouth gaping until Dash frowned and said, "Snap out of it Kwan! I need some 'manly' advice right now. I don't know what this is classed as. I mean, he asked ME whether I wanted to go Friday and I said yes!" Dash bit his nails nervously and looked at his friend with expectancy.
He snapped out of his confused haze and stuttered a reply, "I-I don't know what to say. What lead to this happening?" Kwan sure as hell looked a bit freaked out. After all, his best friend had a brief 'intimate' encounter with none other than the hero of Amity Park; a dead one at that. Wasn't that like, necrophilia or something? No. Not that intimate.
Dash began to explain with a blank expression. "Well, he saved me by some rough punks when I walked into the wrong part of town-"
"You mean Danny Phantom fought humans? That doesn't seem like him. Unless he's fighting that freaky circus master or some ghost fighters. He doesn't hurt people." Kwan interrupted rather rudely and Dash gave him a harsh warning glare.
"He knocked the leader out Kwan. To save me okay?" Dash sighed and massaged his temples. His best mate was so odd sometimes. But at least he had faith in everyone. There seemed to be a lack of that nowadays.
"You must mean something to him then." The blonde blushed at that comment and shouted to himself internally. "What happened after that?" The Asian boy leaned towards him with interest.
"Well, after the guy strangled me, Phantom helped me up and I kinda collided with him. Face wise. COMPLETELY UNINTENTIONAL OF COURSE!" He laughed nervously and looked around to check if anyone was listening to their conversation. "He flew me home and said goodbye but not before he invited me to meet him somewhere. I said yes... Obviously. After all, this is Danny Phantom isn't it?" Dash grinned slightly and his shoulders relaxed as he looked down at his rhythmically moving feet.
Kwan was gobsmacked for a minute for he smirked and punched Dash's shoulder lightly, "You got a date then? Never thought you the type to like boys. Especially ones who hide under beds." He winked and laughed before falling back clumsily onto the soft green grass.
"Dude! It's NOT a date! And monsters hide under beds. Not ghosts." Dash corrected matter-of-factly and stuck his index finger straight with an air of intellectual superiority that only Fenton's red-headed sister could pull off effectively.
"Oh, I'm not suggesting that ghosts hide under beds in general. But Phantom might sleep under yours in particular." Kwan grinned and produced a blush of embarrassment from his confused jock friend. "And stop blushing dude. You aren't some kind of girl. Or maybe you are! Phantom carried you bridal style right?" Kwan loved winding Dash up, especially when it caused him to cover his face.
"Dude. Not cool. I'm seriously scared. I still don't know whether he's a good guy or not. You know how much of a variety of opinions people have on him. Some think him as an evil ghost but I've always believed he wasn't! But now I'm meeting with him... I don't know." Dash pulled at his limited amount of hair in frustration.
Kwan stopped joking now and looked more concerned than before. "It'll be fine and if it isn't, I'll kick his ghostly butt. Okay?" Kwan tried to convince him. From beneath his hands, Kwan saw Dash smile and nod his head slightly.
At that moment, they heard screams coming from the direction of the cafeteria, catching the attention of the two jocks immediately. A few clashes and bangs rang out before a black and white clad teen flew through the wall obviously not of his own choice and straight into the small tree of which they were perched under. Before the two could act further, the rather weedy little spirit fell from the tree with a series of 'ooh!'s and 'ow's and countless cusses spilling from his lips as he hit each branch. He finally dropped to the ground with legs splayed wide and a slowly rotating head which would suggest that he was dizzy. The only thing he needed now was a couple of birds circling his crown and chirping or maybe even a few ghosts.
"Phantom, are you okay?" Kwan asked politely and was replied with the ghost shaking his head to sort out the spinning sensation and jumping up onto his feet. He puffed out his chest and put his hands on his hips in his usual hero stance before answering.
"Um... Thank you citizen! But there is no need to worry!" He announced almost comically before opening his toxic eyes to see none other than Dash and Kwan before him. He pursed his lips and put his arms behind his back. "Uh... Hi Dash." He smiled with a haze of crimson crossing his cheeks.
"Hi." Dash smiled back and Kwan looked as if he would explode if he didn't let out the laughs he contained.
"Um I've got to go! Beating ghosts and all!" He laughed nervously before saluting and giving a second glance to Dash. "Get your big metal butt back into the ghost zone Skulker!" He roared and zoomed off into the cafeteria once more.
"Wow... He's a catch alright." Kwan snorted which received an annoyed punch from his friend who beamed inwardly. He was truly lucky to have this chance. To have a personal meeting with Phantom more than once. Dash looked to the ground once more and plucked a white flower from below him in absent-mindedness.
Far away in Wisconsin, Vlad Masters was fuming. Skulker had returned to him only to tell him that his little badger was getting close to a certain jock in his heroic ghost-form while continuing to have a bully-nerd relationship in his human-form.
Vlad paced up and down his study with a thoughtful expression on his pale face. His pure white ponytail bobbed on the back of his neck and dark eyes held no sign of him leaving this trance.
Didn't Daniel know how this would jeopardise his secret and his own for that matter? The way he was planning this encounter was more disturbing than his Techno-friend's love for that infernal device of his. The fact that this boy was Daniel's long term bully made him even mor worried. Not for his safety, but for the fact that if he found out that he was a halfa, he would more than likely tell the entire world that Danny Phantom was half-human. After that, it wouldn't be long until his own identity was discovered. His little badger had clearly inherited his fathers stupidity.
Plasmius stopped walking but kept his arms behind his back. He would have to monitor him more closely than before it seemed. He just hoped that Danny would gain enough sense as to not reveal himself.
Vlad picked up a small, robotic doohickey shaped like a bug with a similar look to that of his ghost half. With a flick of a switch the bug, along with many others flew out the window and into the darkening sky. Vlad smiled. It was necessary, but entertaining also. Not that his little badger would be too happy about that.
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